Ina May Wool

BORN: Massachusetts

RESIDES: New York

PLAYING SINCE: Childhood

"One of my favorite New York singer/songwriters!" John Platt, WFUV

Bio

With a powerful voice that goes from a soulful shout to a delicate whisper, Ina May Wool has been singing and making up songs since her childhood in Marblehead, MA. She began playing guitar at 9 and went from party gigs and family concerts to working with her own band throughout the Northeast.

The Ina May Wool Band played bars, ski lodges, and outdoor shows, graduating to sellout concerts at Passim in Harvard Square and concert openings for acts ranging from Mose Allison and Taj Mahal to Maria Muldaur, Tom Rush, and Orleans. Her two prize-winning solo albums of original songs (Moon Over 97th Street in 1999 and Crack It Open in 2004) won rave reviews and led to European tours and more concert openings for the likes of Leo Kottke and Richard Thompson.

She recorded some of her songs on WOOL&GRANT (2013). After screening 17,400 CD's from artists worldwide, the Just Plain Folks Organization has chosen that CD as a finalist in the Best New Folk category.

Ina May enthusiastically leads creative writing and songwriting workshops. Now based in New York City, she's writing more songs than ever and preparing to record some of them in 2018.

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7 Questions

1: What artist would you most love to work with?

Steve Earle

2: What instrument brings you the most joy?

The human voice.

3: What was the worst advice?

Be careful.

4: What was your first concert?

I sang "Tender Shepherd" in the production of Peter Pan my sisters and I put on in our family garage with and for some neighborhood kids. Later in the same show I played Tinker Bell. Costume: pink tutu from ballet recital. Special effects: flight simulation via jumping off the garbage can.